Joe Cooper 🇺🇦 🍉I believe I just deleted the first secretly ChatGPT-generated comment on the forum for an OSS project I maintain. It was shaped like an answer, but didn't actually answer the question. Great grammar, sounded authoritative. But, wrong. The internet is absolutely going to become gray goo, and it's going to happen so fast.
thebravelittleposter@swelljoe have we considered the case of the confidently wrong average white male ? Just saying I’ve encountered quite a few in my corporate tech sales life.
@thebravelittleposter That's 95% of our user base, and I believe I can differentiate between the two. I was unsure with the first one...thus, me saying "I believe", but then another came in a few hours later from a different user with similar shaped username and similarly nonsense email address (we already block disposable email domains, so they have to have a real address, so spammers are always like g4j3tjjng32 at Yahoo or GMail or whatever). Definitely spam, probably a language model.
@thebravelittleposter I should also say that I include myself in that "confidently wrong average white male" contingent. Not trying to denigrate the users of the software I work on. We're just mostly a bunch of aging sysadmins, which is a category of user from a time and place where mansplaining was the way we bonded/fought over the internet. And, also predominantly white and male.
@swelljoe I am also confidently wrong and male. I get it.